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The Metagenome Program uses advanced sequencing technologies to decode the genomes of microbes in their natural … encompasses bacteria, archaea, and micro-eukaryoes, along with their associated viruses and mobile genetic elements. … the Metagenome Program uses several experimental approaches to assess microbial activity across ecosystems.  By studying …

The mission of the Joint Genome Institute is to serve the scientific community as a user facility … order by the reviewers. The ranked proposal list, along with a recommendation from management at JGI and the other … project specifics with PIs (including JGI scientists as needed), and the work plan is written into a Statement of …

Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called methanogenesis. … of significant interest for their potential contributions to a sustainable bioeconomy, including, potentially, methane … to make the methane, so to speak. These organisms basically need two enzymes.” These microbes are specialized to use …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … challenges. Chlamydomonas is a single-celled alga with a unique place in evolutionary history. Retaining … the manual curation of the Chlamydomonas genes. The need for streamlining those gene names speaks to the impact …

Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. … considered for bioenergy feedstock development. Summary With the aim of producing at least one reference genome for … kingdom. The abundance of fungal genomes underscores the need for a more comprehensive exploration of genomic DNA …

… with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in bacteria and leveraging … L, Blaby IK, Blaby-Haas CE. (2024) A hemoprotein with a zinc-mirror heme site ties heme availability to carbon … CE. (2022) Zng1 is a GTP-dependent zinc transferase needed for activation of methionine aminopeptidase. Cell …

Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship … in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 … 4th year PhD student in Quantitative and Systems Biology Mentor: Guohong Wu, Plant Comparative Analysis What effect has …

… a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights into how these ocean photosynthesizers cycle carbon in … are tiny, invisible to even the most powerful light microscope, and fickle, often hiding their function from even the … studied, that sandwich has an additional outer layer — two zinc ions, a component they’ve named a zinc-mirror heme …

… wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant … of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and … was green millet (Setaria viridis), a small model grass with a short lifecycle that uses a carbon fixation process …

Research in the Woyke laboratory focuses on the utility of single-cell methods to access genetic material of uncultivated taxa of … candidate phyla, major branches in the phylogenetic tree without cultivated representatives. The “Great Plate-Count …